Your Ideal Week

Nov. 15- Nov. 22

Greetings, everybody, and welcome to our first winter weather of the season! Hope you all have your hats and gloves ready to go—it’s gonna be a cold one today. I just made a vat of this butternut squash soup and I’m pretty excited to eat exclusively that today and tomorrow while staying inside as much as possible. If you’re a baker, the imminent Nor’easter presents the perfect opportunity to try your hand at one of these gorgeous pies from last week’s NYT cooking section in anticipation of any Friendsgiving or Thanksgiving gatherings you have coming up. (We've got a few perfect potluck recipes ourselves.) Or, you could just order in and settle in on the couch with this new Escape from Dannemora show that Ben Stiller directed or HBO’s adaptation of My Brilliant Friend, which I can’t wait for (both premiere Sunday). My sister highly recommends Border, the new and freaky looking movie from the writer of Let the Right One In, so I may venture out to Alamo to see that at some point this weekend. Or maybe I’ll check out the Hilma af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim that we recently featured in our Instagram stories.

Last week, I saw Elaine May’s incredible, heartbreaking performance as a woman succumbing to dementia in The Waverly Gallery, and had an absolutely delicious dinner at Brooklyn Cider House, which I recommend if you’re looking for a fun and night out somewhere new. In my travels around town, I was consistently struck by just how awful the subways have gotten, and am perplexed as to why the City would agree to pay the world’s richest man to bring Amazon here, when it seems like the only things we don’t need around here are more tech bros, more traffic on public transit, and more tenants in the market for real estate. At any rate, this Onion piece made me smile, which is tough these days given the grim coverage of the California fires.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chris Hayes will be talking about “Big Ideas” at Congregation Beth Elohim on Sunday night, which should be a fascinating, if heavy, discussion. On a lighter note, comedian/writer/actress and former Brooklynite Jenny Slate has announced a show at Murmrr Theatre on December 20, and it’s probably a good idea to get tickets now. Check out the rest of our ideas for how to keep busy straight into your tryptophan-induced coma on Thursday. We’ll be off next week for the holiday, and want to wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to the entire BB community—may your table be covered with delicious food and surrounded by people you love. We are endlessly grateful for your readership and support.